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MagicLeap launches “Creator Portal” to let you start creating content. Secretive augmented reality startup MagicLeap is finally taking its first step towards opening up their platform to outside developers. Anyone can access the MagicLeap Creator Portal and sign-up for free.
Today MagicLeap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the MagicLeap One headset. Eye tracking. Gesture and handtracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Room scanning and meshing.
At a sponsored GDC 2018 session, the still mysterious augmented reality company MagicLeap has revealed how their prototype hardware has evolved from 2014 to present day. SEE ALSO MagicLeap Launches Developer SDK, Confirms Eye-tracking, Room-scanning, and More. Eye tracking. Gesture and handtracking.
MagicLeap reveals prices and availability of ML 2. Finally, MagicLeap has revealed information about the price and availability of MagicLeap 2. These are all right considerations, but it is also true that MagicLeap has much better visuals. Top news of the week.
Despite securing $280 million from Japan’s largest telecom earlier this summer, we’ve heard surprisingly little from the multi-billion dollar AR startup of late regarding its flagship headset, MagicLeap One. Image courtesy MagicLeap, Weta Workshop. Check out MagicLeap’s full blogpost for more detail.
Today during MagicLeap’s developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that’s built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture input.
Image by MagicLeap). MagicLeap is on sale. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that MagicLeap is exploring a sale of the company. The sales never skyrocketed and now MagicLeap is in desperate need of cash , after many layoffs, disappointing sales, and having put its IP as collaterals to a bank.
Vive Pro date and price, MagicLeap announcements, Nvidia’s real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces. MagicLeap announcements. image courtesy MagicLeap. MagicLeap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Nvidia RTX.
Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) handstracking. Originally I was going to make a standalone device which hooked everything up to a Nvidia Jetson Nano that could be worn on your belt (think MagicLeap One). developers compared to the amount of Unity/Unreal devs is far less.
The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or MagicLeap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. Hands-on review.
If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal. Standardization of Hand, Face & Body Tracking "Handtracking has been supported in Godot for a long while now, however improvements have been made to ensure better cross platform support, including standardisation between OpenXR and WebXR.
Other devices from MagicLeap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion. We’re now bringing that directly to developers, who can download the software development kit (SDK) for Unity or Unreal Engine. These range from the Lenovo A3 [and MagicLeap 2].
Image by MagicLeap). MagicLeap looks for a $100-million deal to save itself. Some reports by Business Insider and The Information talk about the current situation of MagicLeap, that seems always more complicated. More info (MagicLeap trying to raise $100M) More info (MagicLeap timing for the future).
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Mark Rabkin showed a whole slide about Unreal Engine and announced camera access. I already had my travel plans figured out for Unreal Fest Seattle, where my company was giving several talks , followed by a Star Wars convention in Orlando, where we’d be exhibiting our open source recreation of the Galactic Starcruiser.
Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR. Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the MagicLeap One. It is very complete, since it includes full body tracking (with Vive Trackers), hands and face tracking!
Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of MagicLeap. News worth a mention.
But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and handtracking. Both the Hololens 2 and the MagicLeap are shipping with eye tracking. And I think that the Vive, there’s gonna be an enterprise version that has eye tracking as well.
But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and handtracking. Both the Hololens 2 and the MagicLeap are shipping with eye tracking. And I think that the Vive, there's gonna be an enterprise version that has eye tracking as well. It's amazing.
But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and handtracking. Both the Hololens 2 and the MagicLeap are shipping with eye tracking. And I think that the Vive, there’s gonna be an enterprise version that has eye tracking as well.
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